The Iola register., 1887-06-24

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men were terribly beaten. The riot was
quelled by the company taking the new men
away.
WILLIAM MAHoNEr jumped from the sus-
pension bridge At Cincinnati the other
night. He was not seriously hurt.
THERE is much excitement over recent
discoveries Of ircn ore in Buffalo County,
Wis. Every shaft sunk shows rich depos-
| its and four companies have been organ
| lied.
TIE Michigan Senate has passed the
House Local Option bill after making some
slight changes. The House will probably
accept the amendments and the bill will
then 60 to the Governor for his signature.
GEORGE CONNOR was arrested at Oakland,
Col, for smuggling opium by way OF Can.
ada. He was presumed to be connected
with the great opium smuggling ring.
THE strike of all building trades in St.
Paul, Mlnn.. went into effect on the 18th.
WHILE ]. A. Ryan and Harry Ireloar were
drilling out blast which had missed fire,
| in the Paint River NINE at Crystal Falls.
| Mich, recently, the blast went of, blowing
of the head and arms Of both men and hor-
| ribly mangling their bodies.
The panic in the Chicago wheat market
was continued on the 18th. Several more
firms were posted as insOlvent, among
them being C. j. Kershaw & Co. The ef-
feet of the Chicago break was to make the
! markets in the other cities weak and nerv-
Gus.
A BALLOON ascension was made recently
at Painesville, o. In its descent the bal
loon struck the tops of some trees and
dumped the occupant, Prof. Clark, some
sixty feet to the ground. His injuries were
| thought to be fatal.
THE Prospect Machine and Engine Com
pany, formerly the GUNNER Engine Com
pany, of Cleveland, O., has made an as
signment. The capital stock of the cor
poration is $4,000, and Is held by leading
citizens in Cleveland. The liabilities are
estimated at S2OO,0OO and the assets at
$500. 600.
GRIFFIrHs, Marshall & Co., brokers of
Minneapolis, Mnn.. have suspended. They
acted as Kershaw 4 Co.'S agents. II. A.
Smith also suspended, with liabilities of
S6O,OCO Both failures were due to the
Chicago wheat panic.
THE Chicago cattle market has been much
demOralized lately. Prices have ruled ex-
ceptiOnally low.
The Denver grand jury has returned six
indictments against Sheriff Kramer and
officers under HIM for false pretenses and
malfeasance in office. They enter general
denial.
AT meeting of the stockholders of the
Illinois Central road at Chicago recently it
was decided to increase the capital stock
by SO, 900.
FOURTEEN separate fires occurred in
Chicago on the 18th. About $4,000 was
lost by the burning of lumber yards and the
Il III, &pn
art avenue boy was fatally injured by a
lot of piping rolling over him. Crane
Brothers foundry, which burned, caused q
loss of $26,OOO.
THE Prospect Machine and Engine CON-
pany, of Cleveland, O., has made an assign
ment. Liabilities, 300, 900; assets, s5OO. 600.
BRYANT A. CRANDALI, who was supposed
to have thrown himself over Niagara Falls,
has been arrested at Salem, Ore, charged
with perpetrating fraud to secure insur-
ance on his life.
ArToRNEY-GENERAL MICHENoR, Of Indi-
ana, has decided that Colonel Robertson
is Lieutenant Governor of that State, hav-
ing been legally elected last fall
The storm of the 18th at Grand Forks,
Oak, destroyed the Catholic Church and
the University building. Other buildings
were blown down or damaged. No lives
were lost by the overturning of the train,
but three persons were killed in the town
| and 500, 600 worth of damage done.
THE strike of the 200 ore handlers of
Cleveland, O., ended in a victory for the men.
CoLoRADo has relaxed it's quarantine so
| far as Missouri, Kansas, Iowa aud Nebraska
are concerned.
PUL1rzER's balloon, with four men on
board. left St Louis on the afternoon of
the 18th. 1t was reported passing over De-
troit. Mich, at midnight.
THE steamer Champlain, of the Northern
| Michigan line. bound for Cheboygan from
Chicago, burned at midnight on the 10Th,
between Norwood and CharlevoiX, at the
mouth of Grand Traverse bay. 1t was
thought that twenty-one lives were lost
| either by burning or drowning.
THE SOUTH.
THE wholesale liquor dealers Of Louis
| vile, KY, have indorsed the action of the
| distillers in resolving not to make any
! whisky for year.
| REV. GEORGE PITTARp, Methodist
| preacher at North Folk, n. c., beat boy
| to death recently. The boy was playing
base ball and happened to strike the
J preacher as the latter was passing. Pit
| tard fled.
SwINDELL Bros saw mill near Apala-
chicola, Fla, was destroyed by fire the
other day, together with 100000 feet of
fine lumber. Loss. $4,000; no insurance.
| THE Crozier Iron & Steel Company has
made an assignment. The preferred credit
ors amount to $37S,OOO The assignment
was made, it is said, for the adjustment of
legal difficulties. The works are located at
Roanoke, Va, and rated at over 81, OOO, 600.
| ADUEL with razors occurred near Wood
ruff, S. C.,.recently. The principals were
two dusky Amazons, and the cause was a
mutual sweetheart whose entire affections
were claimed by both. The women fought
until they succumbed from exhaustion.
Both received serious and perhaps fatal
wounds.
| WILLIAM MuRCHIsON, Of jackson, Tenn,
who tasted ninety days without tasting
food or water, on account Of paralysis OF
| the throat, died the other day. This was
| the most remarkable case known to his.
tory, and will be fully reported in the medi-
| cal journals.
| ALL the property of the Arkansas Tele-
graph Company has been sold to the St
Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway
| Company.
| REPORTS from Calhoun County, Fla, state
that an epidemic of rabies among dogs and
cattle prevails there. Several persons, 1t
is said, have been bitten by the rabid dogs.
| A LYNCHING party failed at Troy, Ala,
recently, consequent upon the steel cage
successfully protecting the negro, the mob
not being able to break it open.
IL Eldorado, Ark, the other day DR..
Kimball was shot in the back and killed by
James Baird, with whose brother he had
been Quarreling.
| JOHN W. SMITH, O white man, and leader